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1. Management objectives and challenges
1.1 Waste specificity
All radioactive waste contains radionuclides, which are radioactive isotopes of many chemical elements. A radionuclide is denoted by A X, where A is the isotope's mass number (the number of nucleons in its nucleus) and X is the symbol of the chemical element to which it belongs.
A radioelement is an element whose known isotopes are all radioactive. There are natural radioelements (uranium, radium, etc.) and artificial ones (technetium, man-made uranium, plutonium, etc.). A natural radioelement has a fixed isotopic composition (on a human timescale). The isotopic composition of an artificial radioelement is highly variable. An artificial element has a variable...
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Management objectives and challenges
Radioactive waste
Bibliography
Regulations
Légifrance website http://www.legifrance.fr
Law no. 91-1381 of December 30, 1991 on research into radioactive waste management.
Law no. 2006-739 of June 28, 2006 on the sustainable management of radioactive materials and waste.
Law no. 2006-686 of June 13, 2006 on nuclear transparency...
Organizations
French Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning (Meeddat) http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr
Parliamentary Office for Scientific and Technological Assessment (Opecst) http://www.senat.fr/opecst/index.html
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